Family Wealth & Inheritance

Published 30th November 2014

Chapter 1: Land

Where there were no legitimate sons, in England, daughters would inherit, but, rather than the inheritance going to the eldest, the lands would be split between them as “co-parcenors".

In Kent, the system of gavelkind was observed until the 1920s. Ireland too, operated a type of gavelkind outside the English Pale and the Anglo-Irish earldoms, which conformed to standard English practice.